Building Great Sentences
Based on the bestselling series from The Great Courses, Building Great Sentences celebrates the sheer joy of language--and will forever change the way you read and write.Great writing begins with the sentence. Yet, the sentence-oriented approach to writing is too often overlooked… Celý popis ↓
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Building Great Sentences
Based on the bestselling series from The Great Courses, Building Great Sentences celebrates the sheer joy of language--and will forever change the way you read and write.Great writing begins with the sentence. Yet, the sentence-oriented approach to writing is too often overlooked in favor of bland economy. Whether it's two words ("Jesus wept.") or William Faulkner's 1,287-word sentence in Absalom Absalom , sentences have the power to captivate, entertain, motivate, educate, and, most importantly, delight.
Building Great Sentences teaches you to write better sentences by luxuriating in the pleasures of language.Award-winning Professor Brooks Landon draws on examples from masters of long, elegant sentences--including Don DeLillo, Virginia Woolf, Joan Didion, and Samuel Johnson--to reveal the mechanics of how language works on thoughts and emotions,
Parametre
- Výrobca
- Plume
- Autor
- Brooks Landon
- Rok vydania
- 2013
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